Oleksiy Arestovych predicted with 99.9% certainty that if Ukraine continued to pursue NATO membership, Russia would go to war in 2021 or 2022 to stop it.

hedged in the source 2019-01-01 → 2020-01-01

Oleksiy Arestovych predicted Russia

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Origin: extracted from Flashback to 2019: Oleksiy Arestovych, Zelensky's suave press secretary at the time, said he predicted with 99.9% certainty that if Ukraine continued to pursue NATO membership then Russia would go to war in 2021 or 2022 to stop it · 2026-10-16 16:02